REVIEW 2013-14

And steadfastness in sacrifice, austerity and charity is likewise spoken of as `Sat’ and action for the sake of God is verily termed as `Sat’.

Bhagavadgita (Verse 27, Chapter 17)

Overview

Reflections

Education

Health

Livelihood

Forests & Energy

From the Heart

Experiences and Letters

Accounts & Finances

Appendices

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CONTENTS

While we found it exciting to live in the mountains, we quickly realized that the local populace of

subsistence farmers lacked health facilities, meaningful education for their children, and had few

livelihood options. Moreover, they depended heavily on dwindling forest reserves and their lives

were wrapped in detrimental social taboos and practices.

This led us to formalize Aarohi’s organizational structure in 1992, with a vision to create a more

equitable society. The name ‘Aarohi’ is derived from classical Hindustani music, signifying

ascendance or growth…the growth of thought, creativity and harmony.

Oona, the founding spirit, left us barely four years after the birth of Aarohi. The foundations of

this fledgling organization were shaken, but survived and we have continued our ascendant

path.

Aarohi’s mission is to create development opportunities for rural Himalayan communities through

quality healthcare and education, enterprise promotion, women’s empowerment, sustainable

natural resource use and the revival of traditional culture.

The organisation is headquartered in Satoli, a village 6,000 feet above sea level, in Uttarakhand’s

Nainital District. Today, we are a team of 99 full-time staff, and are supported by 309 members

from all over the world. We actively operate in 77 villages, working with some 46,353 people.

Once-sleepy Satoli is today a buzzing node of grassroots action, bringing sustained change to

the most underserved.

AN OVERVIEW

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REFLECTIONS

Last year was defined by a sense of new

beginnings and great expansion in our different

spheres of work. Aarohi Bal Sansar (ABS) today,

is a thriving Hindi-medium middle school with a

student strength of 178, and a healthy student-

teacher ratio of 11:1. ABS has drawn substantial-

ly on a variety of inputs, including specialised

subject mentors, volunteers and training

sessions. The academic performance of our

primary school children (up to 5th Standard) notably surpasses the Uttarakhand average, (based

on the Annual State of Education Report (ASER) test). We still struggle with teacher attrition

but have instituted measures like enhanced salaries and incentives to improve our retention rate.

ABS’ scholarship programs have become the backbone of financial support to students and their

families. Bal Sansar scholarships enabled 50 ABS students to study for free; the Ilya scholarship

promoted academic and co-curricular talent for 16 ABS students, and the Almora scholarships

assisted 16 ABS students to study in Almora’s best schools. The Room to Read scholarships

supported 31 economically underprivileged girls from government schools and ABS to complete

12th Standard. This program has run successfully for nine years. Seema Nazareth scholarships

enabled two girls to pursue university and professional education, in both cases increasing

their chances of joining the national mainstream. Extra-curricular activities continue to form an

essential part of education at ABS, with the construction of extra play space, sports facilities and

an auditorium already underway. A fun ‘used tyre’ playground is another feature to be added to

the grounds of ABS. Finally, our Youth Wing held its fourth annual cycling and running event,

attended by 170 enthusiasts, a figure more than double from last year. The highlight, however,

was Rakesh and Pramod, two local boys representing Aarohi in the Tour of the Nilgiris (TfN). The

TfN is one of the most challenging cycle rides in the country and our young boys finished in the

top 15.

Our Community Health program took a big leap this year. Our transition between two phases

of funding entailed a lean period of six months with minimal intervention. Thereafter, we picked

up steam once again to plan our largest intervention so far, in a whole Block* of Nainital District

covering a population of some 42,000 people. We completed a baseline survey for the 102

villages in that block and are now implementing the project in this year’s selected 35 villages.

The project aims to strengthen community-driven processes that will enable households to

increase control over and improve the health of mothers and children.

Our state-of-the-art hospital in Satoli continues to provide outpatient, inpatient, diagnostic,

emergency, surgical care and health outreach. This year, we treated 5,770 people from 45 nearby

villages. Our surgical work has almost doubled compared to the previous year and we ran two

* A Block is a division of a District

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camps in villages of the Pindari river basin. Our school health program covering 10 schools

benefitted 536 children with regular health check-ups, Vitamin A supplements and routine

deworming.

Providence brought us an INR 23.2 million corpus grant for instituting a girls’ scholarship and

health program in and around the village of Supai in Almora District and thus began the H.K.

Trivedi Memorial Fund. This amount was willed to our Chairperson (Dr (Col) C.S. Pant), by the

late Kamla Trivedi, an ex resident of the village, after seeing the excellent services provided by

a Mobile Medical Unit (MMU), a project initiated by Col. Pant. The MMU was successfully run for

six years by the government and the Birla Institute in Bhimtal and have now been handed over

to Aarohi for a trial run of one year.

Our Livelihood Promotion Program (LPP) provided supplementary income and employment to

over 1,500 farmers from Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. This year we sold INR 4.2 million

worth of apricot and peach-based body care products and culinary herbs, providing a total

benefit of INR 2.7 million to the community. Much effort was put into a branding revamp and

developing an online portal for sale of products. These should be in place by June 2014. Aarohi’s

annual five-day Grameen Himalayan Haat drew 28,000 people from 50 surrounding villages,

resulting in local sales of INR 497,000. The Haat, held just after the winter harvest, has emerged

as a major platform for local commerce and interaction, and as a showcase for rural talent and

traditional culture.

The General Gurbir Mansingh Van Panchayat award extols Van Panchayats or local forest

committees that manage their forests in a scientific manner, and underlines our commitment

to deepening the rural dialogue on natural resource management. This year, 14 villages partici-

pated in the evaluation, of which two villages will receive cash prizes amounting to a total INR

15,000 for best community practices and maintenance of forests.

Through our fundraising efforts this year we raised INR 31.95 million from supporters all over the

world and have so far spent INR 22.55 million. Our Swiss partner, Aarohi Schweiz, alone raised a

sum of INR 3.8 million (18% of our annual income). Our student show-cum-fundraising events in

Delhi raised INR 0.66 million through generous support of well-wishers. The event enthralled a

gathering of some 300 people. For the children of rural Kumaon it was a fairy-tale experience of

intense preparations, performances on stage and sightseeing in Delhi. A momentous milestone

this year, was the launch of the Aarohi-UK chapter with the help of friends in November 2013.

The aim of this chapter is similar to that of Aarohi Schweiz; it will move towards creating a formal

platform for raising funds and volunteer support for development initiatives in rural Uttarakhand.

Looking ahead

The coming year will see the roll-out of our ambitious health project in Okhalkanda Block,

supported by the Mobile Medical Unit where 14 camps will bring radiological, diagnostic and

medical services to very poorly serviced villages. We will have much more learning space in our

school – new classrooms, and a wonderful tyre adventure playground. We will also have young

managers in charge of all the three major sectors of our intervention i.e. Education, Health and

Livelihoods as well as a couple more to help with management, coordination, communication

and fundraising. We eagerly await the finalisation of a brand revamp for our products and to

selling our products online.

We expect to streamline our volunteer inputs and will need to clearly define our volunteer re-

quirements in each sector to make the program mutually fruitful, and are excited about our first

ever charity bike ride in Kumaon.

All of us at Aarohi are happy with a sense of a year well lived. With the good wishes of our

families, friends and associates we welcome yet another year of exciting and meaningful work,

in service of the people of rural Uttarakhand.

Dr Sushil Sharma

19 May 2014

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AT A GLANCE

No. of villages where Aarohi works

Population covered

No. of meetings held

Total attendance

Women

Men

Women: Men ratio

No. of patients seen (hospital + camps)

Sale of body care & herb products (INR lakhs*)

Children at Aarohi Bal Sansar

Aarohi members

Aarohi workers

Individual contributions (INR lakhs*)

Grants and Income (INR lakhs*)

Expenditure (INR lakhs*)

*One lakh is 100,000

** This reduction in village meetings has been largely influenced by the community health project, which was put on hold between two different phases of the project. During this time funding was reduced for a period of 4 months and ceased completely for 2 months. Furthermore the first 4 months of the new phase was spent conduct-ing a baseline survey and the following month was taken up with a training and exposure visit for newly recruited staff.

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35,000

1,620

20,020

13,500

6,520

2:01

3,859

38.06

163

299

84

37.1

246.75

194.89

58

36,800

1,358

13,651

9,555

4,096

2.3:1

3,805

40.38

168

297

85

37.3

208.79

171.84

77

46,353

139**

2,435

1,802

633

2.8:1

5,770

42.13

178

309

99

41.3

319.48

225.53

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

EDUCATION

AAROHI BAL SANSAR

Since its creation in 1994, Aarohi Bal Sansar (ABS) has grown steadily and

continues to raise the standard of education amongst children of the local area,

the vast majority of whom speak Kumaoni as their mother-tongue. As a thriving

Hindi-medium school, ABS caters to children aged 3-14 from nursery to 8th

Standard, with a much healthier teacher-student ratio of 1:11 than national standards. This year

ABS brought together 178 children (81 girls and 97 boys) from 14 local villages into a small

community. Their incredible energy and eagerness to learn, play and see their teachers and

class-mates is evident in the long distances many travel daily on foot over difficult mountainous

terrain, some walking as much as 5km twice a day.

ABS is an inclusive school where admission is granted to all children from the area whatever

their background, social status or religion. Numerous scholarship programs allow children from

families of limited financial means to attend ABS and to pursue further education afterwards.

Given that many of the children attending ABS are first generation students and have little

support for their studies at home, academic performance is a challenge. Despite this, testing

conducted last year, showed that the basic literacy and numeracy of ABS students in Standards

1-5 is far superior to that of the average amongst children in the State of Uttarakhand (as

compared to ASER 2013 data).

ABS aims to institute a process of social change at an early age in order to help children

become responsible citizens of society. Its vision is “Holistic development of personality in a

joyful environment”. The school’s spirit is captured by various events throughout the year, where

students showcase Kumaoni cultural song and dance, their sporting abilities and their creativity

in the areas of science, art & craft and theatre. ABS prides itself on welcoming a large number

of volunteers who expose the students to a great variety of activities and this year has been no

exception.

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ACADEMIC PROGRESS

Students with Attendance over 90% (Stds 3-5)

Comparison of Academic Performance (Stds 3-5)

Students with Attendance over 90% (Stds 6-8)

Comparison of Academic Performance (Stds 6-8)

This year ABS has seen an improvement in both attendance and academic performance as

compared to previous years. The number of students with an over 90% attendance has risen since

the last academic year, from 69% to 78% in Standards 3-5, and from 66% to 85% in Standards

6-8. The latter is a significant increase of 19%. This is probably due to teachers monitoring

absenteeism and talking to both parents and children about the importance of attending school

regularly. We are pleased to note that the tendency in rural homes to hold back girls from school

for household chores or looking after siblings is not evident in ABS.

Academic performance is measured throughout the year by monthly tests, a half-yearly exam

and a final year exam. A comparison between this academic year (2013-14) and the previous

(2012-13) shows that a significant number of students have improved from average to above

average and from good to very good. Reasons for this are multiple. Students in Standards 6-8

may well have been motivated to work harder given the possibility of being awarded an Almora

Scholarship to pursue their studies after 8th Standard. The fact that teachers have provided

more regular remedial classes for weaker pupils in Standards 3-5 who are struggling, is likely to

have contributed to improved academic performance across those classes.

Teachers have also been working harder to improve their classroom teaching and setting

homework more regularly. The more timely availability of textbooks and stationery this year as

compared to previous years has aided teaching. Furthermore, teachers have been making use of

e-learning material for Standards 1-5, and have felt motivated to improve their own performance

and attendance given the prospect of being awarded the Saral Tandon Teacher Award. Finally, the

involvement of volunteer teachers, notably Achla Sawhney who has taught English in Standards

7 and 8, has undeniably helped to raise both attendance and academic standards. This is evident

in the way that students take to the teachers who travel from afar to work with them.

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is generated from an annual household survey

conducted by volunteers under the aegis of Pratham, a leading Indian NGO in the education

sector. The survey aims to provide annual estimates of children’s enrollment and basic learning

levels for each district and state in India. As regards academic performance, the ASER survey

includes tests for children’s basic literacy and numeracy. In 2013, arithmetic and reading in Hindi

were tested in Uttarakhand. In early 2014, volunteers tested ABS students in Standards 1-5

using the same ASER test papers. A comparison of the ABS results and the Pratham sample

2012-13 2013-14 2012-13 2013-142012-13 2013-14 2012-13 2013-14

69%

TOTAL Boys Girls

62%

78% 78% 78%81%

2%

BelowAvg

BelowAvg

Avg AvgAboveAvg

AboveAvg

Good GoodVeryGood

VeryGood

3%

24%

11% 11%

45%

3% 2%

25%

21% 22%

17%

22%

31%28%

29%

59%

12%16% 17%

66%

TOTAL Boys Girls

68%

85% 82% 88%

63%

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in Uttarakhand shows that ABS students perform better than the Uttarakhand average in both

Hindi literacy and numeracy (see Tables 1 and 2 below). In terms of arithmetic (subtraction),

ABS students in younger classes (Standards I and 2) are notably much more capable than the

Uttarakhand average. In Standards 3-5, ABS students also far out perform the Uttarakhand

average in terms of division and subtraction.

Legend: ABS is Aarohi Bal Sansar, UK is Uttarakhand and NT is Not tested.

How to read this table : Each cell shows the percentage of children in a particular Standard and their highest level of achievement in numeracy. The lowest ability is the first row progressing to the highest ability, which is division in the last row. Those with the highest ability have all prior abilities. For example in ABS Standard 1, 77% of children can subtract (as compared to only 5% of the children in the ASER Uttarakhand sample); the 0 in the previous row indicates that all children who can identify numbers 10-99 can also subtract; 15% can recognise numbers 1-9; and only the remaining 8% cannot even recognize numbers 1-9 (as compared to 30% of the children in the ASER Uttarakhand sample).

Arithmetic (% of children by standard and numeracy level)

Not even number

recognition

Number

recognition (1-9)

Number

recognition (10-99)

Can subtract

(2 digits)

Can divide (3 digits)

ABS

8

15

0

77

NT

ABS

0

6

11

83

NT

ABS

0

9

32

45

14

ABS

0

0

6

33

61

ABS

0

0

13

34

53

UK

30

34

30

5

1

STD 1 STD 2 STD 3 STD 4 STD 5

UK

16

35

29

16

4

UK

7

32

30

22

8

UK

3

22

28

25

22

UK

3

14

25

23

35

How to read this table: Each cell shows the percentage of children in a particular Standard and their highest level of achievement in literacy. The progression of ability is from the lowest in the top row to the highest in the bottom row. For example in ABS Standard 1, 23% of children can read a story fluently (as compared to only 7% of the Uttarakhand average), 31% can read a paragraph composed of simple sentences but not a story, 15% can read words but not a paragraph, 23% can read letters but not more, and only the remaining 8% cannot even read letters.

Reading in Hindi (% of children by standard and literacy level)

Not even letters

Letters

Words

Paragraph

Story

8

23

15

31

23

36

32

15

10

7

0

0

0

0

100

21

28

17

17

17

0

4

5

9

82

10

24

14

23

29

0

0

0

6

94

5

17

13

17

48

0

0

0

7

93

4

11

10

14

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ABS ABS ABS ABS ABSUK

STD 1 STD 2 STD 3 STD 4 STD 5

UK UK UK UK

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Anjali, a volunteer, with ABS children in village Kumati

Scholarship

ABS

Ilya (ABS) In memory

of an ABS student

Ilya (non-ABS) In

memory of an ABS

student

Almora

Room to Read

Seema Nazareth

(In memory of

Seema Nazareth)

Beneficiaries

Children from the local area

who need financial help to

attend ABS.

ABS students

Local children wishing to

pursue studies beyond 12th

Standard.

ABS 8th Std students who

wish to pursue their education

in Almora until 12th Std

Girls who wish to pursue their

education until 12th Std

Girls wishing to pursue

graduate-level or vocational

education

Criteria for selection

Families with limited financial

means, with a single parent or

parent with a disability.

Strong academic performance,

talent in sports, music, arts and

crafts or showing leadership

potential

Talented in a particular area

and limited financial means.

Strong academic performance

Limited financial means,

academic performance

Limited financial means,

academic performance

SCHOLARSHIPS

Annual cost per scholar

INR 8,000 (school fees, uniform,

books and stationery, health

check-ups and supplementary

nutrition three times a week)

INR 1,000 (school bags,

story-books, puzzle and mind

games, and art and craft

materials tracksuits, sport shoes

and sport equipment)

INR 12,000

(Fees for Masters in Music at

Kumaon University)

INR 40,000-70,000 (admission

fee, tuition fee, boarding, extra

coaching, uniform, books and

stationery). Parents contribute

up to 50% of the cost.

School fees, uniforms, study

materials and health check-ups

INR 10-25,000

Number awarded 2013-14

10

15 (five for academic

excellence and ten for

achievement in sport)

1

16 (11 in Koormanchal

Academy, 2 in Adams

Girls School and 3 in

Beersheba School)

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2 to study for a Nursery

Teacher Training Diploma

12 Kalpana Bisht, Standard 5: A prospective Ilya scholar

small business in the local area. As a result, I was able to take over the running of my father’s dairy a year

ago allowing him to concentrate on cultivating his land with my brothers.

I did this whilst continuing my studies but this was hard as it meant rising

early, walking 2km to the dairy and working there from 4-6am every day.

Given my increased confidence, creativity and ability to build relationships

with people, I also found new ways to sell the organically-grown seasonal

vegetables and pulses from my parents’ land. My father used to take his

produce all the way to Almora to sell. However, I decided to promote the

produce in the local area and to sell it to NGOs through the contacts I

made with Room to Read and Aarohi staff. I established the possibility for

clients to place orders by phone and I send their produce to them by bus

or taxi. I even managed to provide produce in bulk for small functions such

as a birthday party, meaning that clients didn’t need to travel to Almora

to buy such quantities. As a family, our income has now increased, and we

have expanded our house by three extra rooms.

As a result of participating in the entrepreneurial program and the life-skills workshops, my mindset has

changed. I have become resourceful and independent. In the future, I would like to study for a Bachelor of

Arts in languages. I want to do so through distance learning so that I can continue to run my family business.

My whole family and I are immensely grateful to Aarohi and the Room to Read program.”

Divya Bisht, ABS scholar

Divya joined ABS in 1st Standard and a Bal Sansar Scholarhip has funded

her education over the last three years. She is now in 4th Standard and is

developing exceptionally well. She scored 84% in her end of year examina-

tion in March 2014. This is a dream come true for her father, Godhan, who

would never have imagined that, given his modest background, he would

have a child performing so well academically. Godhan has been strug-

gling to support a family of seven including his wife, who works hard as a

housewife, their three children and his parents. His principal occupation is

farming but given that he has little land, that there is limited water in his

village, and due to the prevalence of pests such as monkeys and wild boars,

he manages to cultivate food for his family for just 2-3 months every year.

The family was for a long time dependent on Divya’s grandfather’s army

pension to meet their daily expenses. Godhan was forced to migrate to Ghaziabad near Delhi to take a job in

a factory. Sadly he lost his job in June 2011 due to the closure of the factory. He spent the next year without

work before eventually finding a part-time job as a chef in the local ashram.

Given the family’s economic limitations, Godhan and his wife are thrilled to see their youngest daughter

receive a scholarship to study at ABS as this means she is receiving a good education and has a bright

future ahead of her. Since Divya began studying at ABS, her parents have noticed how much confidence

she has gained and how she is able to take initiative and take on tasks independently, whether it be her

homework or household chores.

Poonam Arya, Seema Nazareth Scholar : In her own words

“I am from a large family of four children living in Lweshal village. My parents have little money – my father

works the land and runs a dairy. I study in a Government school and was selected for a Room to Read

Scholarship by Aarohi on the advice of my headmaster and the village head back in 2007 when I was in

6th Standard. This was fantastic as it meant that I was able to continue studying until 12th Standard rather

than being married off by my parents, who are struggling to afford the school fees for all of their children.

Thanks to this scholarship, I benefitted from life skills sessions in which I learned how to successfully run a

EXTRA CURRICULAR HIGHLIGHTS

Culture and Language

Six students participated as delegates in the 18th International Children’s

Film Festival of India. The children learned how to make a film and performed

a traditional Kumaoni dance on the evening of cultural performances.

ABS also organized an inter-house Hindi Elocution Competition for parents,

a popular event!

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RESPONDING TO CHALLENGES

Teacher Salaries: We raised considerable funds from institutional and individual donors from

within the country and abroad this year, allowing us to increase teacher salaries within a range

of 20-60%. The considerable increase that we have been able to provide this year has increased

the motivation of the teachers at the school.

Teacher Capacity/Motivation Building: A new initiative to increase teacher motivation is the

offer of an award for teachers who have shown the greatest professional development. The

recipients of the Saral Tandon award will be judged according to criteria of greater rigour and

discipline in their general approach to work, and innovation in their teaching.

The initial steps taken to make better use of the internet and e-learning facilities have contrib-

uted significantly to building the capacity of teachers and students. We installed a television in

our library and received a generous donation of three tablets and e-learning materials. These

facilities have been used to enhance the teaching of Hindi, English, Maths and Environmental

studies. From nursery to 5th Standard, students now have one e-learning session a week. An

area for improvement is teacher’s willingness to seek out e-learning material online.

Although ABS teachers have benefitted over the last year from a number of external training

sessions, they haven’t necessarily been able to apply what they learned as the training courses

aren’t completely tailored to the context in which they work. Furthermore, only a limited number

of teachers benefit as they can’t all attend, and the students inevitably suffer due to the absence

of their teacher for a certain period of time. The plan this year is to conduct a thorough needs

analysis of teacher capacity and attract the human resources to provide in-house training and to

subsequently guide the implementation of what the teachers have learned into their daily work

at ABS.

Funding challenges: As a result of successful fundraising efforts on behalf of the Aarohi UK

chapter, we have had a steady stream of donations coming in from the UK and USA through

Global Giving, an online fundraising platform. These funds will be utilized towards meeting the

running costs of ABS this year. In addition, a group of individual donors from the UK have shown

initiative in supporting us by pledging one-time donations. Our aim, this year, will be to convert

these leads into long-term commitments (3-5 years).

Capacity building for teaching of English: A number of English-speaking volunteers have

worked with teachers and students to improve their understanding and use of English. Although

incredibly valuable, as this provides more exposure to the English language, this approach is

rather ad hoc, and doesn’t necessarily provide the continuity that is required for effective ca-

pacity-building. The challenge of attracting long-term qualified English teachers or trainers as

volunteers has not yet been met.

LOOKING AHEAD

The initial in-roads made towards securing longer-term funding have allowed us to envisage

turning previous challenges into exciting opportunities for strengthening the school’s capacities

and advancing further towards our goals in the coming years. Current funding is enabling us

to grow our infrastructure. In the coming year we look forward to opening more classrooms, a

Sport

Hosting the inter-school cluster-level sports rally, organizing an inter-house

football tournament, teachers challenging the students to a cricket match on

teacher’s Day and the annual sports day.

Uttarayan: Spirit of the Mountains

What started primarily as a fundraising event for our school has additionally

become a means of spreading awareness of Kumaoni culture and an amazing

annual exposure for our school children. This year, we hosted this event at San-

skriti Kendra in New Delhi for the fifth consecutive year. More than 300 guests

attended.

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multi-purpose hall with an auditorium, training space, sports facilities and changing rooms. Fur-

thermore, an exciting children’s playground using old tyres will be built in May 2014.

In the short-term, we look forward to the arrival of a new education coordinator in June 2014.

The coordinator will run a multimedia learning pilot project to explore ways of building a stron-

ger digital and e-learning capability at ABS and training our teachers accordingly. The results

of the project will determine our path forward in this direction. This step will aid us in adopting

a more sustainable way of reducing teacher attrition by systematically building their capacity,

particularly as regards English-teaching. The benefits of which will be felt over the long-term.

Like any group of young people the youth of rural Kumaon seek

varied ways of engaging themselves. However they have limited

opportunities to do so. Living in a remote part of the country they

connect with the outside world only through mobile phones, radio

and television. A lack of sporting, cultural and vocational activities

mean that the Kumaoni youth easily feel disillusioned and bored, leading to known problems

such as teenage pregnancies and alcoholism. It was in response to this need in the community

that we decided to start the Aarohi Youth Wing four years ago. The objective is to encourage

physical and mental fitness of young girls and of the region through the medium of sport. A

simple concept, in just four years alone the initiative has matured to be a pivotal part of our

education work.

This year has been one in which the initiative took a big leap forward. We reached out to more

than 170 participants from 17 villages, a figure nearly double from that of the 80 young people

we engaged with last year. We took a step forward by sponsoring exceptional boys and girls in

sports events taking place in other parts of the country. Our youth wing veterans, Rakesh and

Pramod, participated for the first time in the prestigious Tour of Nilgiris (TfN) in December 2013,

the toughest cycling challenge in the country. It was a new dawn for all of us to see our young

boys representing Kumaon, riding alongside some of the most distinguished riders from around

the world.

Rakesh, 24 years old, helps his father run a tea shop, works as a caretaker at a nearby hotel and leads

treks as a guide. After learning cycle repair and maintenance skills he started a small cycle repair

services business at the teashop. He dreams of running a cycle-rental business for tourists and has

already mapped out beautiful cycling routes in Kumaon.

In his own words : “At TfN I learnt about adventure cycling, met like-minded people but most of all saw a

beautiful part of India I had never known about. The whole experience was exhilarating.”

Pramod, 21 years old, helps run the family grocery shop and is currently studying a Bachelor’s degree

at Kumaon University. He was a student of Aarohi Bal Sansar until 5th Standard and participated in

the very first Aarohi youth event in 2000. While Pramod’s father runs the grocery shop, his on and

off alcohol addiction means that Pramod has to take on the additional responsibility of helping run

the shop. With access to only a basic bicycle and limited training opportunities due to work commit-

ments, Pramod nonetheless rode the TfN with such grit and determination that many only dream of.

In his own words : “We came to be known as the Aarohi boys and that was just wonderful - everyone knew us!”

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Rakesh and Pramod at an early morning practice session

LOOKING AHEAD

The last four years have demonstrated that the local rural mountain youth is inherently inclined

towards physical activity and for that reason sport has proved to be an extremely effective

medium to engage with them. Inspired by the stories of Rakesh and Pramod, we worked on

conceptualising and implementing a charity bike ride in the Kumaon Himalayas, inviting riders

from all over the country and the rest of the world to ride along with the local youth. To be held

in April 2014, the first ever charity bike ride in the country (The Kumaon Himalaya Ride), will be

an annual Aarohi event serving as a catalyst to promote sport and, in particular, cycling amongst

the youth of the region. In addition, it will serve as a platform for participating riders to fundraise

for Aarohi. We plan to engage more actively with local NGOs such as Chirag to encourage and

support our youth to participate in events such as the Mukhteshwar Marathon.

Education in Supai

This year we expanded our work area to include the village of Supai in Almora district under

the H.K. Trivedi Memorial Fund. Under this program we provide scholarships for girls from two

government schools and are also instituting a computer literacy centre in the village. Through

the H.K. Trivedi Balika Shiksha Protsahan Yojna scholarship we enable young girls from class V

upwards to study till university level; provide extra tuitions at school; provide financial support

to those girls who wish to pursue vocational education after school; and give life skills training

(this element is linked with our Room to Read Scholarship program). We are presently support-

ing eight girls through this program.

The computer literacy centre is a base for computer training for the whole of local community

and not just the girls alone. It has 3 desktops so far and an average of 20 training sessions are

held per week.

In addition, H.K.Trivedi Memorial Fund also supports the education of 178 students at ABS.

HEALTH

While the Government of Uttarakhand is committed to improving health systems,

a lack of functioning hospitals in rural areas, low service utilisation and consider-

able disparities between urban and rural communities in accessing health care

continue to undermine progress. It is to fill this lacuna that we have worked for

the past 22 years to improve access to quality primary health care for rural com-

munities in and around Nainital District, both by providing services directly and by strengthening

existing government systems.

COMMUNITY HEALTH

We were privileged to launch a new 5-year community health program in August 2013, with the

aim of improving maternal and child health in 105 villages in Okhalkanda Block. Since then we

have built upon the successes of the previous 3-year project in 30 villages, largely in the same

Block.

We have achieved :

100% primary immunization for children between 0-23 months

no maternal deaths during the last 18 months of the project

institutional deliveries increased to 40% against a baseline of 10%

provision of complete antenatal care increased to 98% from a baseline of 34%

fall in malnutrition in children below 3 years from 38% to 18%

The new community health program aims to strengthen community-driven processes that will

enable households to increase control over and improve the health of mothers and children. A

large baseline survey was conducted for a total of 105 villages. The population of these villages

according to the 2001 census is 42,686 (21,400 men and 21,286 women). A structured interview

was undertaken with pregnant and lactating women and mothers of children aged 0-5 years.

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The sample size of the survey was 400 women from 15 villages. The results showed that:

Most women (89%) farm for a living.

More than half (60%) of women have had their

first child between 19 and 21 years of age.

Half the women (51%) who are currently

pregnant have not had an ANC (ante natal care)

check up during this pregnancy.

Among the women who had a child, 80% of

them delivered at home, out of which 58% of

the deliveries were assisted by untrained dais

(midwives).

Among women who said that they faced compli-

cations during their pregnancy, majority (65%)

did not take any treatment for the problems.

46% of women made no prior preparations for

their delivery.

Among the women who planned to deliver at

home, more than half (57%) had made no plans

to save any money for their delivery (a critical

measure in order to save time during emergen-

cies in the mountains).

Among women who planned to deliver at home,

only 3% intended to deliver in their cowsheds

(a huge cultural shift from practices 2 decades

ago).

Over the past year, our health workers have improved awareness among rural communities on

maternal and child health issues, women’s hygiene and clean drinking water and sanitation. This

has been done directly through house visits and village meetings but also indirectly by pro-

viding much-needed training to Government-appointed Accredited Social and Health Activist

(ASHAs).

Our health supervisors have identified serious health problems amongst mothers and young

children and worked to resolve them as illustrated by Khasti’s story below. The effectiveness

of data collection and educational visits made by ASHAs to pregnant women and mothers has

been increased by the provision of a mobile phone application developed by Aarohi and an

American not-for-profit, Dimagi Inc.

Over the past year, we have also made in-roads on securing the future provision of clinical ser-

vices to rural communities living in remote areas in the districts of Nainital and Almora by re-

storing a Mobile Medical Unit (MMU), which ceased to function as a government service in 2012.

The MMU will have the services of a Radiologist, a General Physician, a Lab Technician, an X-Ray

Technician, a Nurse and a Pharmacist. Patients visited by the MMU will be able to benefit from

ultrasounds, X-Rays, ECG, blood tests, sputum exam for tuberculosis, family planning services

and the prescription of medication.

Among women who already had a child, more

than 80% had delivered at home and untrained

dais had delivered more than half (58%) of the

babies.

76% of women are not given meat, eggs, fish or

ghee after delivery and 65% are not given green

leafy vegetables. Diet restrictions for lactating

women vary in intensity in different areas but

the practice is widespread and detrimental to

the health of mothers.

80% of women breastfed their babies within

24 hours of delivery (a great cultural shift from

earlier times when babies were not given vital

colostrum or the first breast milk since it was

considered bad for the baby).

Among women who had a child, 69% had given

their new born baby a bath within one hour

of birth. This is not recommended as bathing

the baby will remove the white coating known

as vernix, which acts as a first line of defense

against infections. Bathing can also expose the

newborn to hypothermia, which may result in

pneumonia.

More than half the women (61%) do not use any

contraceptive method.

More than half (58%) women eat food after all

other members in the household have eaten.

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Jo Parker, a volunteer midwife, examining a young mother in village Jamradi

A woman’s health is sacrificed due to the ardent desire for a son

Thirty year old Khasti Devi lives with her husband, mother-in-law and four daughters in the village of

Jhargaon where we run our community health program. Khasti’s husband is a daily wage laborer and Khasti

helps with farm work. Khasti and her husband desperately want a son and for this reason Khasti has had

eight pregnancies since she married at the age of 21. Her first three deliveries went well and she gave birth

to three healthy girls at home. However, after the third delivery, she suffered many health problems. She

chose to ignore them and her fourth delivery resulted in a stillbirth in hospital. The attending doctor told

her that the cause was most likely her severe anemia. The following year she gave birth to a baby girl who

is blind and suffers from mental disabilities. In spite of this, she and her husband continued trying for a son

resulting in four miscarriages of which the last involved heavy bleeding over a period of several months.

Khasti was clearly in need of care and support when an Aarohi health team worker met her during a routine

house visit. Khasti was encouraged to take iron and folic acid tablets and explained the need to re-gain

her health before trying for another baby. Our health workers explained to Khasti and her husband, the

probable causes for her miscarriages and the problems that might arise if she were to fall pregnant again

soon. We advised her on family planning methods and suggested admission to Aarohi’s hospital to recover

from her anemic condition. We even had philosophical discussions with Khasti and her husband on the

necessity of a son!

Khasti’s life situation is typical of women of the region. Due to social pressures and the desire for a son,

women often tend to sacrifice themselves to achieve that goal. Only with spreading awareness and better

education for all, can we improve the health and well-being of these women.

CURATIVE HEALTH

This year our hospital in Satoli,

the Aarohi Arogya Kendra (AAK),

provided high quality and medical,

diagnostic, surgical and emergency

services to a total of 5,770 patients

from 45 villages over a radius of 70

km. Monthly health camps enabled

716 local residents to access qualified

surgical, ultrasound, medical,

paediatric and eye care specialists.

On two occasions during the year

specialists travelled to Satoli from

around the country to successfully

provide quality treatment for 1,189

patients requiring reconstructive

surgery, ear-nose-throat and cataract

surgery patients. Health camps

enable local residents to access

low cost surgery in an environment

where they are treated with care

and dignity. They also have access to

medicines either at Aarohi’s hospital

or directly in their villages.

We have also continued to conduct

frequent medical check-ups in

schools in and around Satoli

providing deworming medication,

vitamin and calcium supplements

and monitoring children’s growth.

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At a health camp

TOTAL PATIENTS BENEFITED

OPD patients treated at AAK

Female

Male

Children

In-patients treated

Home Visits/Emergencies

Laboratory Test

X Ray

Ultrasound

Total villages covered

School children screened for health problems

No. of dental camps

Dental screenings for school children

Total dental screenings

No. of dental extractions

No. of dental fillings

Other specialist camps

Total patients treated in specialist camps

Total surgeries done in camps

Mobile health camps

No. of patients seen in mobile health camps

3,859

1,640

630

909

101

76

1

1120

111

185

50

103

8

102

635

386

50

13

1,104

69

16

377

3,877

1,894

754

1063

77

62

10

1535

113

269

50

134

11

102

412

130

27

13

1,116

55

10

303

5,770

2,056

828

1116

112

104

0

999

100

202

45

536

9

157

436

116

10

15

1,189

101

32

716

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

THE PINDARI CAMPS

The Pindari health camps of Aarohi started in September 2009, a result of the efforts of our

dear friend Pankaj Wadhwa. The bi-annual camps aim to provide basic but essential health care

services and spread general health awareness in government schools largely bereft of teachers.

These villages lie scattered on the trek route to the Pindari, Sunderdhunga and Kafni glaciers.

They lie between altitudes of 2000 to 3000 m above sea level, and a good ten hours of a tough

trek through mountain terrain from the road head, which itself is eight hours of difficult driving

from our village headquarters in Satoli.

While we started with medical camps, our effort to provide a more sustainable intervention in

health and education meant organising regular village meetings in Khati. Despite their initial

enthusiasm, Khati’s population soon lost interest when they realised there were no ̀ development

doles’ to be had. The organisation of biannual medical camps was not sufficient to sustain the

local population’s interest.

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We then concentrated our efforts on a school health program that included growth monitoring

of children from four schools, routine deworming, Vitamin A and Calcium supplements, and

extra training of ASHAs, in addition to the treatment of patients needing medical care.

The following write-up describes a typical camp, of which we have now conducted eight.

Pindari Camp 11-17 April 2013

On 11 April 2013 heavy rains and a storm were forecast. We were out of bed by the early hours of the

morning to start our 5 hour-long journey in three jeeps from different locations, to rendezvous at the district

headquarters of Bageshwar. From there, we changed our vehicles to the more sturdy Mahindra jeeps that

would take us over bumpy roads for 2.5 hours to Loharkhet. The rain started whilst we were driving to

Loharkhet and as a result we benefitted from a lovely cloud cover on our arduous trek of 10km to Dhakuri.

After having ascended some 2000m and crossing the pass at Dhakuri Vinayak at 3000m, we witnessed a

magnificent sunset against the backdrop of the towering peak of Maiktoli (6803m) and many others in the

range. The next day we reached the Khati primary school to hold our first medical camp. Our group was an

assorted one of three doctors, one dental surgeon, two paramedics, two community health managers and

seven others who were volunteers and trekkers.

We conducted systematic medical and dental check-ups of four primary and junior schools in the villages of

Khati and Wacham. While the lack of basic infrastructure has preserved the pristine beauty of these villages,

it is also responsible for limited access to basic health and education services. Women with complicated

pregnancies often die during childbirth, as do young children due to sickness. Old people with cataracts

are blinded and those with fractures often land up with badly united bones that leave them crippled for life.

Women still spend five days in dirty cowsheds during menstruation and also deliver babies there.

For the first time in the four years of our six-monthly visits, we had a very welcoming and responsive village

meeting in Wacham that promises greater village participation. The Chief Medical Officer at Bageshwar, in

addition to giving us permission to hold health check-ups in the schools, also issued orders for the govern-

ment-appointed village ASHAs, ANMs (Auxilliary Nurse Midwives) and the Pharmacist to be present. It was

good to get support of this government machinery!

Our volunteers kept the children engaged with poems and songs and by playing football with them. A

total of 200 children were screened, treated for common ailments, dewormed, given calcium supplements

and their growth monitored. 103 additional patients were treated including for 18 dental extractions under

the most rudimentary conditions in local schools. We walked 75km from heights ranging between 1,000

– 9,000m above sea level. Our trek to the Pindari glacier, unfortunately had to aborted from Dwali as the

routes were closed due to heavy snowfall. Some of us chose to walk a bit more and enjoy the snow while

others chose the glacial melt of the Pindar to swim in.

Health in Supai

Under the H.K. Trivedi Memorial Fund we expanded our health intervention to the village of

Supai in Almora District. We hold monthly health camps and half yearly checkups for school

children in the village. We also conducted baseline surveys in the area to gain deeper under-

standing of the health issues there. We are supplementing the training of local ASHAs for better

maternal and child care.

LOOKING AHEAD

Our community health project, supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, is an ambitious one that

covers the entire Okhalkanda Block of Nainital District and is funded for a 5-year period. This

gives us a great opportunity to bring meaningful change in maternal and child health care. Our

partnership with the government to run mobile health care services in Okhalkanda Block will add

immensely to the benefits of this community health project.

Our clinical services, supported by the Himalaya Drug Company, have seen a great increase in

surgical work and this needs consolidation by building the skills of our medical team. As for our

outreach camps, in the snowy fields of the Pindari Glacier lives a renunciant, called the Pindari

Baba. He has lived and meditated here for the last 14 years. Moved by the plight of children in

the government schools, the Pindari Baba placed 15 assistant teachers in local village schools

and pays them a monthly salary from personal donations. We are seeking ways to coordinate

with him and with a local NGO to have a more meaningful and sustained impact in these remote

villages in the high mountains.

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Today our livelihoods initiative is a small-scale rural enterprise providing

supplementary income to rural mountain families. There are three ways through

which a local family benefits through the enterprise: raw material procurement

(apricot nuts and herbs), processing apricot nuts1 and direct employment at our

production unit.

Background

“A severe hailstorm in May 1992 where hail stones weighed up to 300 grams, devastated the fruit crop of the

area. This calamity prompted Aarohi to step into the procurement of apricot kernels directly from farmers.

The objective was to give value to the kernels- that portion of the fruit that was to date regarded as waste.

This measure was intended, also, to be a kind of crop insurance for apricot growers”.

Extract from Oona’s write up in Annual Review of Aarohi, 1992-93.

In addition, cultivation of culinary herbs was also undertaken the same year with the aim of

promoting it amongst mountain families. Dozens of herbs were grown that year and their

quality and fragrance was superior to their counterparts in the plains. With a growing market for

culinary herbs in the country, this initiative showed potential to provide a sustainable source of

supplementary income for the mountain family.

Today we produce seven apricot and peach based natural body care products and twelve dried

indigenous/European herbs. These are retailed in 79 outlets throughout the country and online

through the Aarohi website.

LIVELIHOOD PROMOTION PROGRAM

1 Processing of apricot nuts involves breaking the nut to procure the kernel inside. It is the kernel that is used to extract

oil. The culinary herbs are not processed by local families due to quality control issues. Aarohi employees maintain quality

control by shade drying the herbs at our own production unit.

Production and processing

Total producer beneficiaries

No. of procurement villages

No. of village samitis involved in procurement

Apricot nuts purchased (quintals)

Apricot kernels purchased (quintals)

Apricot kernels processed (quintals)

Total quantity of dry herbs purchased (kg)

Benefit to farmers – purchase of nuts/kernels/herbs*

No. of families benefited from processing activities

Benefit to farmers - processing*

Overall benefit to community (including salaries)*

1,318

172

3

35

60

44

190

5,63,515

16

1,31,000

16,57,000

1,335

195

5

31

32

38

160

4,87,527

12

1,09,315

19,92,000

1,510

217

7

134.18

39.76

43.06

258

9,95,093

11

1,47,393

26,67,686

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

Note: In the above table | Samitis are village committees | 10 quintals = 1 ton

*INR

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Hand sorting the apricot kernels

SALES AND MARKETING

As our products gain more visibility and popularity, sales outside of Uttarakhand have

contributed nearly 41% of total sales over the last year, an increase of 10% from the previous year.

Within Uttarakhand our sales dwindled due to the natural disaster last summer resulting in very

low tourist turnouts. Himjoli Products (P) Ltd, remains our main distributor within Uttrakhand,

accounting for 21.4% of total sales. Our very own ‘Nature Shop’ at Satoli continues to be the main

retail outlet for our and other local organisations’ products in the area, generating a turnover of

INR 84,140 last year.

This year more than 1500 families earned

an average of INR 700 through raw material

procurement, 11 families earned an average

of INR 13,500 through processing activities

and 22 Aarohi employees earned an average

salary of INR 70,000. Combined benefit to the

community was INR 26.68 lakhs, up from INR

19.92 lakhs last year, a 34% increase. Higher raw

material procurement was the major contributor

for this rise.

We purchased over 134 quintals of apricot nuts

in total. Of this almost 35% was procured locally

in Kumaon region, a 15% increase from last

year. Increased raw material procurement also

allowed us to reach out to 175 more families. The

average annual benefit per family increased from

INR 365 in 2012-13 to INR 700. Despite the fact

that the average benefit through procurement

activities has shown nearly 100% growth, INR

700 is still a modest amount for a mountain

family whose average annual income can range

from INR 24,000 to INR 100,000 . Still, it serves

to be a source of supplementary income from

that portion of apricot that would be regarded

as waste otherwise. In contrast, the average

benefit through processing activities per family

is substantially more at INR 13,500.

Total sales rose to INR 42.14 lakhs this year, a

marginal increase of 1.72 lakhs from last year.

This followed the drastic reduction in local sales

in the aftermath of the flash floods resulting in

Marketing

No. of products

Total sale of products (INR lakhs)

Sale of body care products (INR lakhs)

Sale of herbs & fragrances (INR lakhs)

Sale of products in Uttarakhand (INR lakhs)

Sale of products outside Uttarakhand (INR lakhs)

No. of outlets in India

No. of cities/ towns through which marketed

No. of exhibitions attended

9

38.06

33.87

4.19

26.49

11.57

67

35

7

11

40.38

35.86

4.52

27.85

12.53

73

38

9

13

42.14

35.52

6.62

24.85

17.29

79

40

12

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

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immense damage to land and life in Uttarakhand in June 2012. Net profit was only INR 11, 000

against that of INR 4.41 lakhs recorded last year. This was mainly due to a large investment made

in Okhalkanda Block to expand the Herb Grower’s Initiative.

Quality control was a major focus point this year. Training at AURA Personnel Pvt. Ltd, a company

manufacturing cosmetic products, was extremely useful for the team in terms of learning about

‘Good Manufacturing Practices’. Another similar visit to ‘Jagriti’ in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh also

added to the team’s experience and knowledge.

A major highlight of the year was our branding revamp. In collaboration with an international

branding agency, The Brand Union, we went through a major upgrade in our packaging branding.

This should give us the much-needed impetus to compete with similar brands in the market,

maximizing our profits, ultimately allowing us to channel more funds back into the community

through our health and education initiatives.

Procurement

Processing

Salaries & wages

Combined benefit

Average benefit

1,318

16

17

1,351

1,335

12

20

1,367

1,510

11

22

1,543

5,63,515

1,31,000

9,62,485

16,57,000

4,87,527

1,09,315

13,91,588

19,88,430

9,95,093

1,47,393

15,25,200

26,67,686

No. of Households

No. of Households

No. of Households

Benefit to family (INR)

Benefit to family (INR)

Benefit to family (INR)

2011-12

1,226 1,455 1,729

2012-13 2013-14

SALES TURNOVER VERSUS BENEFIT TO COMMUNITY

50

45

40

35

30

25

20

15

10

5

0INR

lakh

s

2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

Sales & Turnover

Benefit to community

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Herb Packaging: Asha at work

GRAMEEN HIMALAYAN HAAT

In its 13th year now, the Grameen Himalayan

Haat, is a fair organised by Aarohi each October

at which local produce is sold and entertainment

provided in the form of rides, singing, cultural

performances and food stalls and is often the

only annual outing for the mountain family

women.

VILLAGE HOMESTAY PROGRAM

This initiative was launched in May 2013 keeping in line with the objectives of Aarohi’s livelihood

initiative: to provide supplementary means of income to local families.

Many volunteers and other guests visit Aarohi throughout the year. Three families showed

interest to host these visitors. With some guidance from Aarohi they renovated the guestrooms

and introduced elements such as cooking with host family, village walks and farming experience.

The average annual benefit per family was INR 24,000, which is a substantial amount in this

region. Learning about the experience of the three participating families, others too are now

showing interest.

Total no. of Stalls

No. of Organizations + SHGs*

No. of Entrepreneurs

Total Attendance (approx)

Total Sales (INR lakhs)

Community Contributions (INR)

LOOKING AHEAD

Our main focus is to increase our net profits allowing us to channel funds towards our health

and education projects. With a branding revamp, the launch of an online purchase portal and a

new e-commerce page on Aarohi’s website, we are preparing to boost our sales.

45

18

27

21,000

3.82

17,567

39

10

29

23,000

3.71

36,611

54

25

29

28,000

4.97

34,315

2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

*Self-Help Groups

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This year a total of 54 Self-Help Groups (SHGs), other local organisations and independent

entrepreneurs participated generating INR 497,439 in sales, the highest amount recorded in the

Haat’s 13-year history (34% growth from previous year). Beginning as a simple idea to create

a platform to promote local cultural and entrepreneurial exchange, the Haat has matured to

become exactly that.

GENERAL GURBIR MANSINGH VAN PANCHAYAT AWARD

Uttarakhand has established 12,089 Van Panchayats (Village Forest Committees)

to date. These manage some 4,000 sq. km of forests, about 12% of the State’s

total forest area. When these Van Panchayats were formed, village communities

had the power to manage and protect their forests, but time has brought a shift

toward increasing bureaucratic authority.

Against this backdrop, Aarohi worked extensively from 1992 to 2002 to strengthen community

forestry by supporting community processes and ecological protection in 11 villages covering an

area of 240 hectares. We helped revive the otherwise defunct Van Panchayat, and worked with

the community to protect and regenerate forest plots. This effort noticeably impacted forest

biomass regeneration and aquifer recharge. Since our aim was to make each Van Panchayat, a

‘people’s institution’, self-reliant, we gradually withdrew once we felt the forest committee was

sustainably active and empowered.

However, we continue to encourage local communities to actively protect their forests. In 2007,

we instituted the Lt. General Gurbir Mansingh Van Panchayat Award. This award of INR 15,000

recognises community efforts to conserve and scientifically manage forests. Only villages with

inclusive, consultative and participative forest management efforts qualify. Typically, villages

spend 80% of the award money on forest-development and the remaining 20% on village

development, as proposed by Aarohi.

This year we took into consideration ecological condition of community forests, management and

documentation of processes by the Van Panchayats, community participation, soil and moisture

conservation work and future strategy for sustainability of the Van Panchayat. Fourteen villages

participated in the evaluation process: the highest number since the inception of the award

seven years ago. These villages are located in three different hill Blocks of Nainital District.

The villages of Parvada and Kalagar have some of the oldest Van Panchayats in Uttarakhand.

Over the years, these village communities have developed management systems that help

conserve their natural resources, including forests and water. In comparison to other villages

their efforts are more consistent. Parvada has once again taken the first prize for excellence in

forest management practices in this year’s award.

We aim to keep the debate on forest management in local village communities alive through this

annual award.

ENERGY

Our research in the energy sector has been driven by the need to improve the very crude stoves

and methods used in the region to heat homes and cook food, using wood as fuel. On average

women spend 2-3 hours every day collecting fuel wood. In the Okhalkanda Block of Nainital

District - the major target area of our health project – stoves used are virtually the 3-stone stove

FORESTS & ENERGY

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Hema Bahuguna with her chullahs in Karayal

used by primitive man, burning wood inefficiently and filling the house with hazardous smoke,

that women and children in particular, inhale all through their lives, resulting in compromised

respiratory function and early death.

In order to find an alternative, between 2010 and 2013 we conducted research and experimented

with the construction of the Danish `masseovne’ and a rocket stove from the Netherlands. The

masseovne combines extreme fuel efficiency with the storage of heat in a stone mass that

radiates slow heat over 24 hours. This model has proved very effective in our hospital ward and

has been installed in five private homes. It is, however, too expensive for the ordinary farmer.

So a cheaper model was found in the rocket stove, of which, one experimental model has been

made so far.

On a larger scale, we have tested improved cookstoves smokeless chullahs (cookstoves). Over

the last three years we have constructed 401 smokeless chullahs and this has been a period of

intense learning for the community, the masons and us. We struggled with different designs

as well as getting women to understand maintenance of these chullahs and the benefits of a

smoke-free home. We teamed up with ARTI (Appropriate Rural Technology Institute) of Pune

and also brought in a much more scientifically designed chullah that used a fixed mould, allowing

little room for error in construction. However an end-of-phase evaluation found that only 116 or

29% of chullahs were working and used well. The rest were either not in use or had been broken.

An analysis of the situation revealed that the main reason for non-compliance was the mouth

of the chullah. It was too small to puff the standard-sized `roti’ (Indian flat bread). Many women

chose not to adapt and reverted to their old smoky chullahs. Another key reason was a not

very aggressive follow up by the masons’ team, resulting in clogging of flue pipes with soot and

smoking the house.

Consequently, over the past eight months, we have conducted frequent and intensive dialogue

with the smokeless chullah users, adapted the design to provide more space to puff `rotis’ and

introduced a larger mould providing the capacity to cook for 10 people. With greater follow-up,

it is encouraging to note that of the 84 new chullahs constructed in this second phase, 77 (92%)

are in use. Initial studies show that there is a general perceived reduction in usage of wood, a

decrease in cooking time as well as reduction of smoke in the house.

FROM THE HEART

Our sincere thanks to all our supporters who have formed the very fabric

of everything done and achieved this year. This includes our funders and

our institutional and government associates; members of our Managing

Committee, Steering Committee for Education and the newly formed

Steering Committee for the Livelihoods Program; our Chartered Accountants,

bankers, and financial advisors; doctors, teachers, volunteers and donors

from all parts of the world, local communities and all our friends. For yet another year we have

been touched by the commitment shown by members of Aarohi Schweiz and other friends

to support development in rural Kumaon through fundraising in Switzerland and by actively

seeking volunteer support. Thanks also to friends who have believed in us and helped start the

UK Chapter of Aarohi, with goals similar to that of Aarohi Schweiz. In just five months alone

we have seen immense efforts from Aarohi UK in fundraising for ABS and instituting a defined

volunteering initiative.

This year has been no exception in the support we’ve had from volunteers and interns who

gave us not only their time, but sincere effort in fulfilling their assignments. Whether it has been

exposing our children to different forms of art, music, dance or sport; setting up our fundraising

projects on Globalgiving and Give India websites; working through marketing and profitability

analyses of our livelihood initiatives, assisting with baseline surveys, conducting research studies

in the field of maternal and child health, strengthening our youth wing initiative or building

capacities of the para medical team at our hospital in Satoli, it is difficult for us to achieve all this

without the commitment and dedication they have shown.

We also thank the thousands of people of the region who have, for yet another year, believed in

us and shown faith in our work. They have become our friends, partners and fellow travellers on

this long, adventurous road to development in rural Uttarakhand. Thank you all for inspiring us.

We take this opportunity to thank Sylvie More, a volunteer from the UK, Lalit Bhandari of Studio Brahma, Nikhila and Devki, our communication design volunteers, students of the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, who have all played a pivotal role in putting together this review.

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Volunteer Reflection: Allison Andrews, USA

During my 4-week stay, I was lucky enough to

participate in Aarohi’s Annual General Body

Meeting, performing a traditional Kumaoni dance

with other volunteers and staff members. I also

spent a great deal of time at the school, teaching

daily yoga postures to Classes 3-8. This was a

highlight and a great learning point for me, as it

allowed me to apply some of what I had learned

in my teacher-training course and gave me

insights as to how I will accomplish my goal of

incorporating yoga into US schools. Under the

Livelihoods Promotion Program my prime focus

was on the production of apricot kernel oil, where

I thoroughly understood and documented how

their high quality oil is produced and how this

enterprise sustainably employed local people.

The major piece of feedback that I have for

Aarohi is to work on follow through. This is an

issue that really comes down to the individual.

The volunteer’s time at Aarohi is limited so things

cannot always be put off until the next day, week

or month. I understand this as a problem with

people in general. The feeling at Aarohi is laid

back and for the most part things are not done

with any sense of urgency. The lack of pressure is

nice, however, along with it sometime comes the

feeling of unproductively for the volunteer—for

example, if they cannot get the information that

they need to move forward with a project.

Volunteering at Aarohi exposed me to a lifestyle

and culture worlds different than my own. I was

able to get a glimpse of the joys and challenges

of life in rural India: how people survive, how

people celebrate, how people live. My paradigm

of happiness has expanded and I feel so lucky

to have had a chance to connect with these

beautiful people.

Creative Learning through movie making and

animation: Atul Pant, UK

“My aim was to teach the children the basics of

movie making and animation, and demonstrate

how teachers can use multimedia projects

and create e-portfolios from online content to

augment their classroom teaching.

I worked with Standards 6-8 and we began by

looking at how a series of stills can be made into

a flipbook animation. Students then worked in

small groups to create a short story that could

be animated, by sketching and painting post-its

and then using a stop-motion application on the

computer. We then moved onto making a short

video on a topic that was being studied in class.

Students used play dough and put other available

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A Khati girl

we investigated the traditional Bakhli houses

of Peora and Kumati, looking at how this local

architecture connected to topics of math, science,

social studies, geography, agriculture, history and

art. Our exploration involved field trips, making a

short film, a bevy of reports, and a scale model

of the Bakhli built from reclaimed fruit packing

crates. These projects required a lot of innovation

and flexibility from all involved. In spite of a lot of

logistics and a considerable language barrier, the

outcomes were pretty fantastic!

I am convinced that the education ABS students

receive is something truly exceptional. By

opening itself up to the larger world and inviting

people like me into the mix, the school and Aarohi

push the known boundaries of the possible for

these savvy mountain kids. I believe that these

kinds of experiences, coupled with a rigorous and

effective foundational curriculum, will prepare the

young people of the area to creatively respond to

the challenge of taking rural Uttarakhand into a

productive and dynamic future.”

Volunteering at Aarohi, a poetic encounter:

Manmeet Devgun, India

Volunteering at Aarohi was a poetic encounter.

The place is filled with the warmth of people...

the staff, the locals, the mischievousness of the

children and nature as the perfect audience. It

all greets you subtly, with tenderness. The valley

and hills overwhelmed me with their undisturbed

splendor.

So what could a city teacher teach these bundles

of enthusiasm? She gave them the options she

had. Thread painting, soap sculpture, best out of

waste...and some more. The results were the best

rewards - each student trying to bring out the

best in her/him, helping each other, making the

lessons more interesting. She wishes she could

stay a while longer and do more for them.

Waiting for the next opportunity to go there soon!

Thank you Aarohi for this enriching experience.

A Volunteer Remembers: Pat Farbrother, UK

“What are your hobbies and interests?” I was

asked by the interviewer of the Volunteering

Agency in England. On hearing the words “hill

walking” the decision was taken, a hilly area of

India would welcome a retired midwife. Thus, I

came to Aarohi, falling in love with the mountains

and soon feeling at home and part of the Aarohi

family, which at that time was about one tenth

of its present size. And then I found the DAIS

(Traditional Birth Attendants) or rather they

found me. Just two at first, but increasing by each

week so that it finally became difficult to keep all

50 of them as just one group. So they were split

and two sessions were taken each time. They

were all illiterate and mostly no longer young, but

material to creative use to devise projects on

solar energy, amoeba, photosynthesis and

the Internet. Finally we looked at how special

effects are created in movies. I was carrying a

green-screen and a morph suit and we made

one student fly and attempted to make another

into an invisible dancer! A group of enthusiastic

girls role-played TV news reporters and music

show hosts.

ABS students were eager and enthusiastic

learners and hence conducting this workshop

was an exhilarating and hugely rewarding

experience for me. ABS often gets visitors to

interact with their students and how beneficial

such exposure is, was apparent in the children’s

confidence and creativity.”

Thank you: Edmund Kenny, Switzerland

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you

personally for your hospitality and for making

this a wonderful place to be - what a fulfilling

experience! The work that you do is astounding,

given the conditions you started with - it gives us

all hope that, given enough conviction, we can

achieve our goals and all contribute to making

this world a better one.

Both working for you and living here has been

a great pleasure, and I hope this is neither the

last time I visit Aarohi nor the last time that our

paths cross in some way or another. I’ll be sure

to send you any recordings of music that were

written, or at least conceived in spirit here; I think

the inspiration I received here was enough for a

lifetime.

Project-Based Learning: Jebney Lewis, USA

“In the US I conduct participatory projects that

encourage young people to look at culture and

history through the lens of creative art-making.

These projects, rooted in project-based learning,

don’t easily fit a model or a curriculum. Often

they are highly site-specific, and evolve along

with the talents and interests of the young

people I’m working with. They tend to confound

and challenge the teachers and administrators

of the most progressive schools in the US that I

have worked with. Coming up to the mountains,

and to India for the first time, I could scarcely

anticipate that, in spite of a very different setting

and education system, I would find the most

responsive and enthusiastic team of educators

and students that I have ever worked with.

In the span of five short weeks, we completed

two projects with ABS’ seventh and eighth

graders. The first was an archive of Kumaoni

sayings, aphorisms, and proverbs that students

gathered from village parents, friends, and elders

and then used to make some exceptional (and

exceptionally dramatic!) theatre. In the second,

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keen to learn. Always energetic and enthusiastic,

a delight to teach, a privilege to work with, they

are now giving support to all their fellow villagers

that far exceeds their remit to care for mothers

and their newborn.

For the next 17 years Aarohi became my second

and far more colourful family than the one left

in England. I will always cherish the memory of

Bimla with her fantastic cooking and sense of

humour, of Gopal and his broad smile, of Chan-

drashekhar for his unstinting help, however busy.

Jagdish multi-tasking constantly, ready and able

to cope with anything and everything; of course

Anandi who taught midwifery and managed

all her other nursing commitments as well; and

finally Munni, who can only be remembered for

being Munni. The whole team are very special.

I doubt there is a better one in the rest of rural

India, reflecting the guidance they have had from

inception to present day.

Thank You Aarohi for letting me be part of this

journey.

Internship Reflections:

Rebecca Wilgosh, Canada

When I came to Aarohi, I had no experience in

the field of education and had never officially

interacted directly with children since I was one

myself. In this regard, I couldn’t possibly have

learned more from my experience here, and I am

so grateful. With the goal of preparing a com-

prehensive report on education at the school,

Aarohi Bal Sansar, I set out to get to know the

students and teachers.

During the course of my stay at Aarohi, I taught

an English class every Wednesday, rehearsed

a play with the dynamic students in Class 8,

observed many other subjects, subjected the

patient teachers to a process of providing me

with grades and attendance and conducted

a comprehensive survey on the students and

their families. The resulting report drew many

interesting conclusions, but more importantly

than any others would be the commitment of

the teachers, the beautiful sense of community

at the school, and the eagerness of all the

children to be there.

In a very short time, I also became eager just to

be there and in no way felt ready to leave and

move onwards when the time came. Coming

home from India has been nothing short of

heartbreaking for me, and it’s because of the

amazing personal relationships I formed rather

than the work related to the internship I came

for, and I couldn’t be more grateful for Aarohi’s

role in making this experience amazing.

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Jebney with ABS children Rebecca, Tanmay and Rishi

Allison outside the LPP workshop

Internship at Aarohi, an experiential learning in

the Mountains: Rishi Soni, India

As a part of my course in MBA-Operations

at BIMTECH, I spent 2months at Aarohi and

pursued my project under Livelihood Promotion

Program (LPP). Looking back at the time I spent

in Himalayas with an NGO where challenges

increase manifold, I feel that I have made one

of the best decisions in my life. The entire

experience at Aarohi was truly mesmerizing,

rejuvenating and enriching. Not only did I get

exposed to the rural community residing in

Himalayas; the various sustainable measures they

adopt to utilize the natural resources for their

livelihood and replenishing them and above all

the kind of unspoken love people share in Satoli

is truly unforgettable. My assignment aimed

to analyze the working model of LPP, identify

problem areas with the theme of “Strengthening

& Expansion of the LPP”.

Aarohi is special in the way they have created

their working culture and a family kind of

environment, nourishing relationships and

encouraging a unique bond among its team

members and volunteers. The people take

utmost care to ensure that the volunteers are

in no sort of discomfort or trouble. Every team

member has proactively contributed towards

accomplishing my projects.

This 2-month in the mountains would always be

cherished and I sincerely look forward to sustain

this bonding with Aarohi family in future.

ACCOUNTS & FINANCES

The following organizations contributed to Aarohi during last financial year:

Partner Funding Organizations

Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai

Aarohi Schweiz, Switzerland

The Himalaya Drug Company, Bangalore

U. W. Linsi- Stiftung Trust, Switzerland

Global Giving Foundation, USA

Metores Trust, New Delhi

Room to Read, New Delhi

Montreal Westward Rotary Club

Jila Andhata Niwaran Samiti, Nainital

Quovantis Technologies Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Samaj Kalyan Vibhag, Nainital

State Bank of India, Bangalore

Japan Metal Building Systems, Bangalore

Grundfos Pumps India P. Ltd., Chennai

Sharda & Bahuguna, Chartered Accountants

H. L. Kapoor Financial Consultant Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

Canara Bank, Almora

B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Uttarakhand

Hotel & Restaurant Association, Mukteshwar

Sector of Support

Health

Health, Energy, Education & Scholarships

Health

Education

Health, Education

Education

Girls’ Scholarship

Health

Health

Education

Education

Aarohi Youth Wing

Aarohi Youth Wing

Aarohi Youth Wing

Grameen Himalayan Haat

Grameen Himalayan Haat

Grameen Himalayan Haat

Grameen Himalayan Haat

Grameen Himalayan Haat

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Rishi, Chandrakala and Poonam performing at the Annual General Body Meeting

Summarized Financial Results for the year 2013-2014 (INR)

Unutilised grant B/F

GRANT & INCOMES FOR THE YEAR

Indian Institutions

Foreign & International organisations

Government - Central & State

Livelihood Promotion Program

Donations,Interest,Misc.,AAK, Aarohi(L) & ABS

Total Income

TOTAL EXPENDITURE DURING THE YEAR

Education Program

Health Program

Livelihood Promotion Program

Energy & NRM Program

Community Organisation Program

Salary & Stipend- Program

Salary & Stipend- Administrative

Travel

Administrative Expenses

Depreciation

Total Expenditure

TRANSFERRED FROM CAPITAL TO CORPUS FUND

Health Corpus Fund

Education Corpus Fund

Aarohi -L Corpus Fund

47,15,766.40

1,16,46,878.67

63,13,963.99

14,31,130.00

64,15,514.25

61,41,150.07

3,19,48,636.98

38,55,640.00

50,91,434.40

40,33,942.43

1,45,102.00

-

61,74,847.00

5,22,395.00

7,55,499.00

16,36,466.51

3,38,442.00

2,25,53,768.34

-

-

-

45,23,643.92

61,80,792.00

48,59,609.00

35,711.00

54,85,673.35

44,69,170.51

2,10,30,955.86

28,29,826.60

34,84,565.00

30,00,623.75

50,861.00

1,03,567.10

42,81,363.00

8,15,700.00

7,14,585.00

14,42,558.52

2,32,563.00

1,69,56,212.97

5,00,000.00

5,00,000.00

1,00,000.00

Particulars 2012-13 2013-14

Bani Jagtiani Trust-LC

Total

Unutilised grant carried over

Excess of Income over Expenditure

ABSTRACT OF BALANCE SHEET

Liabilities

Capital Fund

CORPUS FUND

Health General Corpus

Dr. B.C.Joshi Health Corpus Fund

H.K. Trivedi Health Corpus Fund

Education General Corpus Fund

HK Trivedi Education Corpus Fund

Shrawan Tandon Scholarship Corpus Fund

Shrawan Tandon Teachers’ Award Corpus Fund

Bani Jagtiani Trust Corpus Fund

Aarohi Metores Trust Scholarship Corpus Fund

Aarohi (L) Main Corpus Fund

Reserve & Surplus

Unutilised Grants

Current Liabilities & Provisions

Total

ASSETS

Fixed Assets

Fixed Deposits

Mutual Fund

Current Assets,Loans & Advances

Total

-

-

95,72,478.52

42,38,156.52

79,74,142.67

20,00,000.00

5,00,000.00

1,45,52,742.00

19,22,000.00

87,31,645.00

10,00,000.00

5,00,000.00

10,00,000.00

3,00,000.00

11,00,000.00

2,99,22,097.03

95,72,478.52

19,69,877.30

8,10,44,982.52

2,07,47,626.55

4,03,39,199.00

1,02,07,471.00

97,50,685.97

8,10,44,982.52

1,56,680.00

12,56,680.00

47,15,766.40

26,25,940.41

69,74,194.71

20,00,000.00

5,00,000.00

-

17,51,000.00

-

10,00,000.00

5,00,000.00

10,00,000.00

-

11,00,000.00

2,39,60,078.47

47,15,766.40

8,25,940.54

4,43,26,980.12

1,83,69,320.16

1,41,61,073.00

60,96,373.00

57,00,213.96

4,43,26,980.12

Founder Members

Managing Committee

Life Members

Managing Committee

Late Pratap Bhaiya, Advocate

Late Mrs. Oona Sharma

Dr. Sushil Sharma

Mr. V. B. Eswaran, Secretary, Finance Ministry (Retd)

Late Lt. Gen. Gurbir Mansingh

Mr. Mohit Satyanand

Late Dr. Ajay Dhar

Chairman till 30.11.2009

Secretary till 28.8.1996

Vice Chairman

Founder Member

Founder Member

Founder Member

Founder Member

Dr. (Col) Chandra Shekhar Pant (Retd), Radiologist

Dr. Sushil Sharma, Anesthesiologist

Mr. Pradeep Kumar Gupta, Ex Banker

Mr. Jagdish Singh Nayal, Lab Technician & Rural Development

Mr. Peter Sydney Chowfin, Director, SOTEC, Bareilly

Dr. Jiwan Singh Mehta, Ex Silviculturist

Mrs. Premila Nazareth Satyanand, Economist

Dr. J.S. Mehta

Mr. Mohan Chandra Kandpal

Mr. Gopal Negi

Mr. Rajendra Singh Mehra

Ms. Anandi Arya

Mr. Kunwar Singh Negi

Almora

Almora

Kaphura

Mona

Mukteshwar

Nathuakhan

Nathuakhan

Nathuakhan

Nigrar

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Mrs. Kiran Singh

Mrs. Julia Singh

Mr. Harish Chandra Singh Negi

Mr. Pradeep Gupta

Mrs. Shubha Gupta

Mr. Tikam Singh Bisht

Chairman

Vice Chairman

Secretary

Treasurer

Member

Member

Member

APPENDICES Dr. Sushil Sharma

Ms. Munni Kabdal

Mr. Vikram Maira

Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Bohra

Mr. Arjan Brijnath

Mrs. Diljit Brijnath

Mr. B.D. Kharkwal

Dr. Lakshita Joshi

Mr. Saurav Debnath

Mr. Jagdish Bhandari

Mr. Diwan Singh Bisht

Mr. Praveen Sharma

Mr. Kalyan Paul

Mrs. Anita Paul

Mr. Yoganand Sinha

Mrs. Maya Sinha

Mr. Peter S. Chowfin

Mrs. Kalpana Ghai

Mr. Subhash Puri

Mrs. Jasjit Mansingh

Mr. V.B. Eswaran

Dr. Surjit Mansingh

Mrs. Jasleen Dhamija

Mrs. Sukhada Gupta

Air Vice Marshal V.B. Batra (Retd)

Lt. Col. Rajat Chatterjee (Retd)

Ms. Niharika Puri

Mrs. Neelakshi Chatterjee

Col. Sudhir Tripathi (Retd)

Mrs. Vijaylakshmi Baig

Mr. Ranjit Dhillon

Mr. Ibadat Singh Dhillon

Mr. Sanjeev Saith

Mrs. Laxmi Ahuja

Mr. Aditya Ahuja

Mr. Rajesh Thadani

Ms. Anuradha Sharma

Mr. Peter Laughton

Mr. Subodh Kumar Saigal

Mrs. Purnima Saigal

Ms. Aishwarya Saigal

Ms. Aparajita Saigal

Mrs. Smriti Sharma

Dr. Puneet Singh

Mr. Vishal Bhandari

Dr. (Col) C. S. Pant (Retd)

Dr. Geeta Pant

Dr. Sanjay Jain

Dr. Nivedita Deo

Mr. Rahul Jain

Ms. Surbhi Bhalla

Mr. Iqbal Husain Khan

Mrs. Manjula Jhunjhunwala

Dr. Kusum Jasuja

Dr. Rohit Radhakrishan Nair

Mrs. Shanta Devi Sharma

Satoli

Satoli

Sitla

Dehradun

Dehradun / USA

Dehradun / USA

Haldwani

Haldwani

Haridwar

Nainital

Nainital

Nainital

Ranikhet

Ranikhet

Allahabad

Allahabad

Bareilly

Chandigarh

Chandigarh

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi / USA

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Faizabad

Faizabad

Faizabad

Goa

Pune

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Ms. Juhi Harisinghani

Mrs. Meena Harisinghani

Mr. Ajit Harisinghani

Mr. Anand Vinze

Mrs. Jayashree Vinze

Mrs. Pilloo Framjee

Mrs. Geeta Billimoria

Mr. Shirish Kulkarni

Mrs. Raj Arora

Dr. Kumar Vishwanath

Mrs. Radha Vishwanath

Mrs. Usha Deo

Mr. Vikas Deo

Mr. Deepak Deo

Brig. Vivek Sapatnekar (Retd)

Mrs. Neela Sapatnekar

Ms. Prajakta Sarwottam

Dr. Ashok Agarwal

Mr. Mohan Lal Gupta

Dr. Bharaj Lal

Ms. Shweta Gopalachari

Mr. Vikram Suresh Nerurkar

Mrs. Meera Gurbaxani

Mrs. Arti Gurbaxani

Mr. H. Gurbaxani

Mr. Avinash Gurbaxani

Mr. Kaushik Chatterjee

Mrs. Suchishree Chatterjee

Mr. Kurush Pavri

Dr. Amrish Vaidya

Mr. Mahesh Natekar

Mr. V. Venkat Rao

Ms. Priti Rao

Mr. Ram Vaidya

Mr. Suresh Bhapkar

Ms. Rashmi Birmani

Mr. Sanjay Deshpande

Mr. Peter Furst

Mrs. Maureen Furst

Dr. Ravi Chandra

Mrs. Manorama Gupta

Mrs. Manju Gupta

Mr. Arun Kumar Gupta

Mr. Aashish Chaudhary

Dr Astrid Christoffersen-Deb

Mr. David McMinn

Ms. Nicole Kilborn

Mr. Tim Winton

Ms. Marissa Howard

Ms. Helen Peters

Mr. Arjun M. Hiemsath

Mr. Kabir M. Hiemsath

Ms. Pilar Palacia

Mr. Vijay Kumar

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Pune

Jaipur

Jaipur

Maharajganj (U.P)

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai

Nagpur

Nagpur

Nagpur

Shillong

Shillong

Patna

Noida

Noida

Noida

Meerut

Canada

Canada

Australia

Australia

Australia

Australia

Australia

Australia

Italy

Germany

Mrs. Margaret Kumar

Ms. Kanika Jain

Dr. Sarah Marti

Dr. Corina Wild

Ms. Jaqueline Lane

Ms. Robyn Davidson

Mr. Leeds

Mrs. Fiona Mohan

Mr. Barrows

Mr. Charles Dobbin

Ms. Hazel Jackson

Ms. Gill Smith

Ms. Liz Roberts

Mr. Kenneth Robbie

Ms. Jodie Giles

Ms. Lucy Lloyd Price

Mr. Barry Morley

Mr. Richard Chamberlin

Dr. Michael Priest

Mr. Russell Scott

Mr. Nigel Ried

Ms. Aparajita Singh Breur

Dr. Thomas Breur

Ms. Nimmi Harisinghani

Mr. Aloke Mansingh

Mrs. Yasmir Bisal

Ms. Maya Mansingh

Dr. Sandeep Gupta

Ms. Fatima Gupta

Mr. Romi Sahai

Mr. Abhinav Saigal

Dr. Seemin Qayum

Mr. Sinclair Thomson

Dr. Sanjeev Arora

Dr. Madhu Arora

Ms. Anita Arora

Ms. Sarah Arora

Ms. Siddhi Gupta

Mr. Joshua Kearns

Dr. Anjali Niyogi

Mr. Patrick Staiger

Dr. Vineeth Varanasi

Dr. Subhashini Allu

Ms. Medha

Mrs. Saral S. Tandon

Ms. Kamiya Dargan

Mr. Claude Al Tabar

Ms. Shilpi Gupta

Dr. Raju Usgaocar

Dr. Smita Usgaocar

Dr. P. L. Arya

Dr. Mukesh Shah

Dr. Neera Shah

Germany

Singapore/USA

Switzerland

Switzerland

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K

U.K

U.K

U.K

U.K

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

U.K.

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

USA

Delhi

Delhi

Lebanon

Mumbai

Goa

Goa

Kaphura

USA

USA

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Institutional Members

Ordinary Members

Aarohi Arogya Kendra

Gram Vikas Samiti

Gram Vikas Samiti

Gram Vikas Samiti

Gram Vikas Samiti

Navjyoti Vikas Samiti

Gram Vikas Samiti

Gram Vikas Samiti

Oona Mahila Bachat Yojna

Ambedkar Vikas Samiti

Karigari Samiti

Adarsh Vikas Samiti

Pragati Vikas Samiti

Village Water and Sanitation Committee

Village Health and Sanitation Committee

Van Panchayat

Satoli

Satoli

Kool

Talla Mona

Malla Mona

Birkhan

Dhatwalgaon

Suyalgarh

Suralgaon

Harinagar

Chopra

Chopra

Quarab

Parvara

Sirmoli

Gargari Malli

Diwan Chandra

Dr. Tanmay Pathani

Manoj Singh Belwal

Geeta Devi

Umesh Sharma

Deepa Devi

Champa Devi

Devendra Singh Nayal

Harish Chandra

Chandra Shekhar

Puran Chandra

Radha Sharma

Pratik Varma

Achala Sawhney

Madhumita Mitra

Rajeshwari Ghosh

Pankaj Singh Bisht

Munni Suyal

Kailash Kandpal

Mohan Bhatt

Almora

Almora

Baron

Bhayalgaon

Bihar

Chamoli

Chamoli

Chhatola

Deari

Deari

Deari

Deari

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Delhi

Gajar

Haldwani

Haldwani

Jhargaon Malla

Khim Chandra Bhatt

Tej Singh Bisht

Tari Devi

Harish Singh Bisht

Uttam Singh

Nathu Singh

Harpal Singh

Pan Singh

Neema Bisht

Bhagwati Devi

Uttam Singh Bisht

Kamla Bhandari

Hema Bhandari

Deepa Bhandari

khasti Bhandari

Godhan Singh

Raghuveer Singh

Krishan Chandra Bhandari

Niharika Mehra

Rajendra Parsad

Indra Belwal

Dayakishan

Khimanand Paleriya

Ghanshyam Pargai

Mahesh Suyal

Hansi Devi

Pushpa Devi

Parwati Pargai

Kesawi Bargali

Yamuna Aeri

Savitri Aeri

Prema Pargai

Susheela Pargai

Premlata Pargai

Vinod Kumar

Kamla Devi

Kamla Devi

Ganga Joshi

Mohini Bisht

Bimla Bisht

Hemanti Devi

Parwati Bisht

Chandra Bisht

Laxmi Devi

Heera Bisht

Sushila Bisht

Diwan Singh Bisht

Bhupal Singh Bisht

Sundar Singh Negi

Khim Singh Negi

Gopal Singh Bisht

Bhupendra Singh

Rajendra Singh

Manju Bisht

Vijay Ram

Puran Singh

Puran Singh Bisht

Harish Ram

Jhargaon Malla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Jhargaon Talla

Kaphura

Kaphura

Kaphura

Kaphura

Kaphura

Kaphura

Kaphura

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Khansyu

Meora

Meora

Meora

Meora

Meora

Meora

Meora

Nainital

Nainital

Nainital

Nigrar

Pathari

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

56 57

Gopal Singh Bisht

Jagdish Ram

Pushpa Bisht

Deepa Bisht

Madan Singh Bisht

Kamla Bisht

Chandan Singh Bisht

Bhupal Singh

Bishan Singh Bisht

Tula Singh

Devki Arya

Ram Lal

Neema Devi

Harish Arya

Yaspal Arya

Janki Thapa

Aanand Mer

Shubha Gupta

Bhagwati Bisht

Pranya & Sonia Singh

Ghanshyam Sunal

Janki Tamta

Basant Thapa

Tara Dutt

Puran Kabdwal

Madan Singh

Mohan Chandra Kabdwal

Govind Singh Negi

Man Bahadur

Devendra Sharma

Ranjan Kumar Durgapal

Sagar Nayal

Nain Singh

Tari Devi

Chandra Negi

Shanti Devi

Khasti Devi

Chandra Devi

Chandra Bisht

Rajneesh Ranjan

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Peora

Rekhakot

Saal

Saal

Sangila

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satkhol

Satoli

Satoli

Satoli

Satoli

Satoli

Satoli

Shimayal

Sinoli

Sitla

Sunkiya

Suralgaon

Suralgaon

Suyalgarh

Suyalgarh

Tanda

Tanda

Varanasi

Aarohi’s Village Partners

Chapar

Dankanya

Sinoli Malli

Kumati

70

48

34

41

Village

Village

Village

Village

Households

Households

Households

Households

Education

Churigad

Putgaon

Timar

Badon

Takura

Dewali

Bagour

Surang

Ramaila gaon

Paitna

Tushrad

Putpuri

Jamradi

Raikuna

Thaladi

Jajar

Harinagar

Mona Talla Malla

Birkhan

Kool

Simayil

Kherda

Suyalgarh

Suralgaon

144

125

91

137

46

28

15

137

37

33

74

62

56

101

122

35

114

142

16

95

47

80

103

50

Livelihood

Karayal

Hairakhan , Aezer

Okhalkanda Talla

Tanda

Rekhakot

Khansyu Bazaar, Village

Galni and Galni Jamni

Chamoli and Chamoli Kitora

Kalaagar

Querala Talla, Malla

Gargari Malli

Gargari Talli

Sirayal

Saal

Jhargaon Malla

Jhargaon Talla

Supi

Jhuni

Khaljhuni

Gwara

Wachham

Khati

Jatoli

Okhalkanda Malla

Sui

Kulori

Pokhari

40

114

114

87

69

109

141

165

218

163

100

89

89

97

68

115

1000

150

54

50

1200

62

18

127

60

132

102

Health

58 59

Meora

Orakhan

Simayil Raikwal

Nathuakhan

Ramgarh

Dol

78

35

115

247

23

9

Individual Contributions 2013-14 (INR 4,129,256)

Education (INR 1,168,882)

New Delhi

Sunil Kumar Jain

Shantanu Saha

Dr. Sanjeev Aneja

Dr. Prachi Renjhen

Quovantis Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Pradeep Anand

Om Wadhwa

Sanjay Pant/ Manisha Pant

Dr. Chandrajit Bajaj

Baljit Jain

Afsha Talwar

Neeraja Joshi

Brinda Singh

M/s Himjoli

Marie Belle Treat

Manoj Kurup

Shulamit Decktor

Jasjit Mansingh

5,000

10,000

32,000

16,000

150,000

3,000

100,000

5,000

25,000

1,000

2,500

25,000

15,000

6,000

7,000

1,000

500

25,000

Satoli

Soon

Kaphura

Deari

Nigrar

Satkhol

Chhatola

Sangila

Peora

Paiyyakholi

Bhayalgaon

Bhadrakot

Lueshal

Matiali

Sirmoli

Sonarkhola

59

48

68

69

33

130

120

15

98

17

92

89

67

42

27

22

Combined

Lingel Windows & Door

Dr. Poornima Dhar

Kenneth D’souza

Swati Kapur

D. C. Joshi

Dr. V. Bhatnagar

Monica Gaggar

Arun Kumar

Asha Gupta

Dr. Harsha Madhok

Dr. Meera Kharbanda

Dr. Bharminder Kaur

Maj. Gen. Ravinder Kumar Dhawan

Rohit Krishan Gulati

Bishan Narain Tandon

Dr. Rajesh Tope

B. Jaishankar

Shubha P. Bahel

Executors & Trustees of Late Shri V. A. Shah

United Way

Vashketu Foundation

Ramchandra A. Vaidya

Magnus Rodrigues

Give India Foundation

Bhopal Singh Bisht

Chandrakala Bisht

Tulsi Gurbaxani

Vandana Singh Bangari

Ravindra Singh Bangari

L & S Arcihtects

Maya Sinha

Bhopal Singh Bisht

Chandrakala Bisht

Edmund Kenny

Collins-Foley Family

Aarohi Society (Staff contribution)

Minakshi Arya

Girish Chandra Dumka

25,000

50,000

2,000

10,000

15,000

10,000

16,000

2,000

500

10,000

10,000

10,000

5,000

3,100

2,500

10,000

10,000

5,000

250,000

1,300

12,000

50,000

25,000

3,556

2,450

9,100

8,000

15,000

20,000

45,000

50,000

2,450

9,100

4,876

7,500

20,000

12,500

7,500

Mumbai

Bangalore

Allahabad

Nainital

Switzerland

USA

Satoli

Satkhol

Dol

60 61

Village Village Households Households

Global Giving - Education (INR 594,198)

Anonymous (2)

Rebecca Lunn

Anjali Dhar

Vivienne Cane-Honeysett

Rashi Kohli

Florent Chagnard

Marta Ruth

Sandeep Kumar

Sheeba Sen

Sushil Sharma

Jessica Finz

Adam wolanski

Lucy Gill

Mohit Joshi

Lucy Gill

Melissa Murphy

Priyamvada Tatachar

Neelam Janardhan

Thiruvamkulam Sethumadhavan

Usha Srinath

Maarten Wijdekop

Sandip Sen

Marta Ruth

Priyamvada Tatachar

Kiran Tota-Maharaj

Omar A Ahmed

Smita Jenna

Venkat Patil

Ammu Ruby

Ammi Pabary

Anand Pogul

Alyssa Kirell

Divya Dwaraknath

Anuradha Venkatesh

G Ramani

Arun Harish

Namitha Vasudevan

Kashyap Muthuswamy

Ameet Deshpande

Naveen Siddaramaiah

Divya Sekhar Gurudutt

Kiran Harish

Sankarar Ruby

Sivadas Sreedharan

301,056

2,559

2,559

12,042

5,720

6,021

7,677

9,032

7,917

1,535

9,216

9,216

1,691

84,571

1,652

5,005

5,299

5,005

2,502

7,949

8,832

8,832

5,888

1,472

5,594

2,944

2,944

2,502

5,005

2,502

5,888

500

5,005

2,502

5,005

8,308

2,944

2,002

2,502

1,766

1,251

5,005

5,005

11,776

Rajesh Shrivastava

Souvik Roy

Ajit Kumar Jain

Gadadhar Misra

Vipul Roongta

Vineet Chhatwal

M/s H. L. Kapoor Financial Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Krishna S. Chandra

Dr. Geeta Pant

Aradhana Khaitan Mahan

Lucy Gill

Shubham Pant

Nancy Tewari

Jabalpur

Kolkata

Nainital

Bangalore

Gurgaon

New Delhi

Delhi

Ghaziabad

New Delhi

New Delhi

London

New Delhi

New Delhi

8,000

8,000

16,000

20,000

100,000

50,000

21,000

100,000

50,000

24,000

25,000

50,000

100,000

Bal Sansar Scholarship (INR 81,000)

Almora Scholarship (INR 320,000)

Education Corpus Fund (INR 171,000)

Rajesh Shrivastava

Souvik Roy

Ajit Kumar Jain

P. S. Chowfin

Premila Nazareth Satyanand

Jabalpur

Kolkata

Nainital

Bareilly

New Delhi

2,000

2,000

4,000

5,000

25,000

Ilya Scholarship (INR 8,000)

Seema Nazareth Girls Graduate Scholarship (INR 30,000)

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New Delhi

Mumbai

Canada

Chhatola

Almora

Dehradun

Jalandhar

Nainital

Satkhol

USA

Manisha Chaudhary

Dr. Prachi Renjhen

Ishi Khosla

Neeta Puri

Maninder Bedi

Gitanjali Tiku

Gurveen Sidhu

Neelam Vasudeva

S. Jhaveri

Ratna Barua

Dr. Meera Kharbanda

Dr. Geeta Pant

Shagun Chaudhary

Pankaj Wadhwa

Nishi Khanna

B. Jaishankar

Ram Vaidya

Ramesh Kacholia

Dr. Neil

Dr. Astrid K Deb

Montreal West Ward Rotary Club

Jagdish Singh Nayal

Dr. Mukesh & Neera Sah C/o Dr. Tanmay

Dr. Shubha Nagesh

Hony Kohli

Chandrakala Bisht

Jila Andhata Niwaran Samiti

Prakash Pandey

Dr. Anjali Niyogi

Dr. Anjali Niyogi

Dalvinder Maniktala

Sangeeta Dalmia

12,000

5,000

4,100

2,100

5,100

1,500

2,000

5,000

300

500

10,000

2,000

500,000

100,000

5,000

10,000

10,000

200,000

27,700

27,700

11,080

7,980

10,000

10,000

1,000

2,600

4,550

10,640

13,000

42,616

5,000

25,000

Health (INR 1,073,466)

Anonymous(3)

Rajan Tewari

Swati J Shah

Mohammed Husain

Maheswary Mohanty

Manoj Rawat

Krishna Saha

Nicholas Lunn

David Mason

Felicity Lunn

Dr Uma Nath

Rama Sekhawat

Amarjeet Singh

Shulamit Decktor

Aditya Mehra

Praveen Ajjampur Shetru

Shalini Cornelio

Dan Rothenberg

1,582

9,029

6,019

530

530

7,453

5,406

4,094

6,021

18,063

10,445

5,222

5,126

5,005

2,502

1,251

11,540

23,080

Global Gving - Health (INR 122,898)

Canara Bank

Sharda & Bahuguna Associates

Hotel Restaurant Association

H.L. Kapoor Financial Consultancy Pvt. Ltd

Venkatesh Iyer, B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Manjari Relan, B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Dhiraj Dolwani , B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Pradeep Gupta

B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

B2R Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Madhumita

Other Donors (Below 1000)

Almora

Haldwani

Mukteshwar

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi

Satoli

Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand

15,000

6,000

4,000

5,000

1,000

1,000

5,000

4,000

9,880

1,800

4,000

34,815

Grameen Himalayan Haat (INR 91,495)

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Khand Shiksha Adhikari

Khand Shiksha Adhikari

Zila Basic Shiksha Adhikari

Zila Basic Shiksha Adhikari

Preparation of layout ofcurriculum

Art and Craft Workshop

Development of learning process

Art and Craft Workshop

Environment Education Workshop

Sports Training Workshop

Poojitha Meka

Shantanu Singh Pundhir

Anish Singh

Mr. Arun Kumar

Nainital

Nainital

Nainital

Nainital

8-9 June 2013

11-19 June 2013

19 July 2013

9 August 2013

14-15 September 2013

22-24 September 2013

Madhuban, Ramgarh Dr. Anju Khanna

Aarohi Bal Sansar, Manmeet Devgun

Madhuban, Ramgarh Dr. Anju Khanna

Chatola, Arvind Kumar

Rudrapur, Ranvijay Gupta

14,064

3,573

13,680

11,400

Neema, Poonam, Varun

Students of ABS and Jyoti

Neema, Poonam, Varun

Kamla, Deepa, Jyoti, Pradeep Gupta

Kailash, Varun

1,000

5,000

1,000

4,600

Government Scholarships (INR 32,717)

TRAINING & EXPOSURE VISITS

Education

Development (INR 11,600)

Training/Exposure Duration Institution/Place/ People Consultant

Madhuban Ramgarh, Shaily Shukla

Kamla, Deepa, Varun, Neema

Nursery teaching and training on teaching Hindi

Nursery Teacher Training Convocation

Children’s Film Festival

Room to Read P.C. Meet

Delhi Workshop topic discussion

Kumaoni Music Workshop

My One Venture (MOV)

Delhi Education Workshop

Life Skills Workshop

Development Camp

Alumni Meet

Animation Workshop

Review Meeting

Adventure Camp and Exposure Visit

12-13 October 2013

03-06 April 2013

12-21 November 2013

02-08 June 2013

23-24 November 2013

15 - 16 August 2013

17 - 21 October 2013

01-6 December 2013

09 - 14 September 2013

15 - 18 November 2013

04 - 05 December 2013

19-21 December 2013

23 - 26 September 2013

23 - 24 November 2013

Madhuban Ramgarh, Aparna Arya

Jingle Bell School Faizabad

Hyderabad

Hotel Hilton Janakpuri, Delhi

Madhuban , Ramgarh Dr. Anju Khanna

Jingle Bell School, Faizabad

Gramin Himalayan Haat

Aarohi Bal Sansar, Atul Pant

Dehradun

Simkholi Kausani

Jyoti, Neema, Poonam, Kamla, Deepa

Chandrakala, Deepa, Kamla

Students of class 4th 5th and 8th class of ABS,

Varun and Kamla

Chandrakala

Jyoti, Neema, Poonam, Deepa

Chandrakala

Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi, 17 Room to Read Grils

Class 6th, 7th, 8th, of ABS and teachers

Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi

Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi, Deepak Nayal, 2 Parents, 23

Room to Read Girls

Miriambika, Delhi

Dehradun

Dehradun

Kathgodam

Jyoti, Neema, Poonam, Deepa

Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi

Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi, 11 Room to Read

Grils

Chandrakala, 10 Alumni girls

Room to Read

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Review Meeting 10 - 13 December 2013 Dehradun Chandrakala, Mamta,Minakshi

Life Skills Workshop 21 - 22 December 2013 Aarohi Training Hall Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi, Megha, Chandra,

Jyoti Patil, 25 Room To Read Girls , 7 Girls Supai

scholarship & 1 parent

Residential tuitions 26 - 30 December 2013 CHIRAG Minakshi, 9 Girls

Residential tuitions

Review Meeting

03 - 07 January 2014

18 - 22 February 14 Dehradun Chandrakala, Mamta, Minakshi

CHIRAG Mamta, 7 Girls

Nursery Teacher Training Convocation

24 - 29 March 2014 Jingle Bell School, Faizabad

Chandrakala, Vimla, Poonam

Orientation of newly appointed staff about the project (aims, objectives and activities)

Planning, Designing and steps on how to conduct the survey

Orientation about the organizational rules, regulations and different policies

Training to collect primary information regarding maternal and child health.

Training on Performance Management Systems. Training given on how to effectively appraise the employees.

10 August 2013

12- 14August 2013

28- 31August 2013

02 September 2013

17-20September 2013

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Asst. Coordinator

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Asst. Coordinator

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Chief Accountant

Institute for Rural Management/ Anand, Gujarat/ Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators

and the Assistant Coordinator

12 Supervisors, 2 Area Coordinators a trainer and the

Assistant Coordinator

12 Supervisors, 2 Area Coordinators, a trainer, Assistant Coordinator,

Coordinator and the Chief Accountant

Coordinator

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

12 Supervisors, 2 Area Coordinators, Assistant

Coordinator and the Coordinator

Health

Training/Exposure Duration Institution/Place/Consultant People

Training on effective communication among the team.

Discussion about methodology and findings during the pilot study.

How to measure the Hemoglobin levels while in the field using Sahli’s method and how to measure the Blood Pressure using a Sphygmomanometer

Training given to the masons on how to build chullahs and follow up done on the chullahs that were built in the past.

Topics on how to take care of the mother during pregnancy, Risks of pregnancy, no. of checkups that needs to be done during pregnancy and immunizations.

Clinical staff was given exposure and training in operation theatre skills, X-Ray technology.

The HMIS formats were discussed with the supervisors, how to fill them, who are the resource persons for different data and the importance of the HMIS.

To improve the supervisors’ personality skills to become an efficient worker.

Training was given on how to provide care to the new born, vaccinations and symptoms associated with illnesses.

An exposure visit was undertaken by the staff to enhance the understanding of Aarohi staff about various health issues.

25September 2013

07October 2013

08-11October 2013

18-20October 2013

06 December 2013

11-21November 2013

07 December 2013

05-25 November 2013

30 November 2013

09 January 2014

18- 25 January 2014

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator

Aarohi/ Satoli/ Dr. Ramani Atkuri

Lemon Hospital/ Herbertpur/ Trainers

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

Apollo Hospital/ Delhi/ Trainers

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Dr. Mukesh Shah

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

Jan Swasthya Sahayog/ Bilaspur, Chattisgarh/ Trainers & Health Staff

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators,

Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators, Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, two trainers, 2 Area

Coordinators, Assistant Coordinator and

Coordinator

Three Clinical Staff- A Nurse, X- Ray Technician

and an OT Assistant

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators and

Assistant Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators,

Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators,

Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, 2 Area Coordinators, Assistant

Coordinator, Coordinator and 3 Clinical Staff

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Mr. Saulunkhe from ARTI, Pune

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

4 Supervisors, 2 Area Coordinators, local masons, Assistant

Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators and

Assistant Coordinator

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Training of Trainers on ante natal care, post natal care, Neonatal care, sepsis in neonatal, nutrition, malnutrition, diarrhoea and growth monitoring.

A refresher training was conducted for the supervisors on how to provide care during pregnancy

Breech delivery- how, when, and risks

Training was given on how long should post natal care be given, what are the care that needs to be given and risks for the mother during the PNC period.

Trial training was conducted by the new Master Trainer, Ms. Kalpana. The topics taught were on how many ANC checkups should a pregnant woman undergo and the risks associated during pregnancy.

Introduction of ASHA’s to the project and their responsibilities were assigned to them

27- 30 January 2014

26 February 2014

13 March 2013

06 March 2014

05 April 2014

12 March 2014

Samarthan/ Bhopal/ Dr. Ramani Atkuri & Dr. Ravi D’zousa

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Jo Parker (midwife from UK)

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Ms. Kalpana Bisht

Asst. Coordinator, Two Area Coordinators, One Trainer and 4

Supervisors

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators, Assistant Coordinator and Coordinator

12 Supervisors, Dais, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators, Assistant

Coordinator and Project Advisor

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators and

Assistant Coordinator

12 Supervisors, a trainer, 2 Area Coordinators and

Assistant Coordinator

Aarohi/ Khansyu/ Coordinator, Asst. Coordinator, Trainers & Project Advisor

12 Supervisors, ASHA’s, 1 trainer, 2 Area

Coordinators, Assistant Coordinator and Project

Advisor

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For over two decades, we at Aarohi have devoted our lives in the Himalayas

to ensure that children and mothers don’t die needlessly; that young girls have

the same opportunities in life as young boys; that every child has a right to

quality education; and that social and economic empowerment is a choice

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Apricot Scrub Soap

Luxury Soap

Apricot Cream

Apricot Kernels

Gift Pack

Mint

Parsley

Thyme

Jumboo

Basil

Sage

Tarragon

Caraway

Rosemary

Oregano

Mixed Herbs

Gift Set Of 5 Herbs

Set Of 3 Herbs

Peppermint Tea

Chamomile Tea

Potpourri Bag

Geranium Satchet

50 ml

100 ml

50 gm

100 ml

100 gm

70 gm

70 gm

50 gm

100 gm

-

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

50 gm

15 gm

15 gm

15 gm

-

-

10 bags

10 bags

-

-

90

90

105

105

105

105

105

105

105

105

125

475

315

105

105

85

90

120

215

60

410

215

55

75

150

450

275

Aarohi is a not for profit Society registered under: Societies Registration Act, 1860; Section 6(1) of the Foreign Contribution

(Regulation) Act, 1976; Section 80G and 12A of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

All contributions to Aarohi are exempt from Income Tax under Section 80 G of the IT Act.

Contributions can be made in the name of Aarohi by way of demand draft or cheque, or through direct bank transfer (NEFT/

RTGS). Transfers using SWIFT can be made for out of country contributions. Please mail us for details at info@aarohi.org.

Front cover: A typical mountain woman: smilingly carrying her load day after day

Back cover: The stunning Nandakhat (6611 m above sea level), en route to the Pindari Glacier

Demand Draft or Multicity Cheque, payable at

Almora, may be sent by registered or speed

post to our village address.

Details for direct credit or transfer

using NEFT/RTGS:

Name and address of Bank: Canara Bank, Mall

Road Branch, Almora, Uttarakhand

IFSC No: CNRB0002324

For supporting Education Program

and Scholarships

Account Name: AAROHI EDUCATION FUND

Account Number: Savings A/c

2324101004007

For supporting the Health Program

Account Name: AAROHI AAK

Account Number: Savings A/c

2324101004008

Grantee: AAROHI

Grantee Bank Account Name: AAROHI

Grantee Bank Account Number: FOREIGN CUR-

RENCY C/A 11576142018

Local Bank Name: State Bank of India, Mukteshwar

– Branch Code 02582

Local Bank Address: Mukteshwar Branch, P.O

Mukteshwar, District Nainital, Uttarakhand, India,

Pincode 263138

Swift Code of SBI, Nainital Branch, India, Interme-

diary Bank in India: SBININBB506

For Donations in USD

US Intermediary Bank Name: State Bank of India,

New York

US Intermediary Bank Swift Code: SBINUS33

For Donations in GBP

UK Intermediary Bank Name: State Bank of India,

London

UK Intermediary Bank Swift Code: SBINGBL2

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Village Satoli, P.O Peora, District Nainital, Uttarakhand - 263138, INDIAPhone: 09758625455 | Email: info@aarohi.org | Website: www.aarohi.orgwww.facebook.com/Aarohi.NGO

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